{"id":7463,"date":"2010-02-13T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2010-02-13T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T20:00:42","slug":"where-does-a-priest-who-doesnt-believe-in-god-get-invited-to-preach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/where-does-a-priest-who-doesnt-believe-in-god-get-invited-to-preach\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does a priest who doesn&#039;t believe in God get invited to preach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningbulletin.com.au\/story\/2010\/02\/13\/meet-the-priest-who-doesnt-believe-in-god\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anglican church<\/a>, of course; but I expect you already knew that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DON\u2019T call me Father, says Peter Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>And it soon becomes clear why the man, who was a serving priest for 45 years before the Catholic Church evicted him from his parish in Brisbane, no longer wants the title.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t believe in the priesthood anymore, nor the virgin birth, nor the infallibility of the Pope. In fact, he doubts that Jesus ever existed and although he is the spiritual leader of a 500-strong Christian community, he says he no longer prays because there\u2019s \u201cno one to pray to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The controversial and charismatic ex-priest, who made headlines last year when he refused to leave St Mary\u2019s as instructed by his Bishop, will preach tomorrow at All Saints\u2019 Anglican Church in Simpson Street, North Rockhampton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welcome home unFather Peter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an Anglican church, of course; but I expect you already knew that: DON\u2019T call me Father, says Peter Kennedy. And it soon becomes clear why the man, who was a serving priest for 45 years before the Catholic Church &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/where-does-a-priest-who-doesnt-believe-in-god-get-invited-to-preach\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2031],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-angst","tag-anglican-angst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}